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7. Welcome To Dudleyville
When the Royal Rumble originally was announced, it was billed as a 40-man match. The thought was that WWE would try to get a bunch of ECW originals to appear since Philadelphia was the home of the former extreme promotion. Instead, it was kept as a traditional 30-man match, with just one surprise entrant from ECW: Bubba Ray Dudley. Given that Dudley hadnt been seen in a WWE ring in a decade and was a pretty popular wrestler in both ECW and WWE, this was an easy call. The Philly crowd ate it up, especially when Bubba appropriated R-Truth to stand in as D-Von, doing the Wassup Drop and Get the table! spots, and then hitting Miz with a 3D. Although Bubbas time in the Rumble was short and there was no appearance from D-Von, this was the one overture to the Philly crowd, and it was a welcome one.
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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
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